Earlier today, President Bush said it was "disgraceful" that the news media (i.e., the New York Times, LA Times & Wall Street Journal) disclosed his secret CIA program to illegally wiretap millions of financial records at the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication ("SWIFT") to search for terrorist suspects. Likewise,…
I've been watching to see what the Bush Administration will do for its "October surprise" to give Republicans a boost in the polls just before the November mid-term elections. According to this article (http://news.yahoo.com/fc/world/iraq), the Whitehouse appears to be planning sharp troop withdrawals starting in September. After more than two…
The Federal Communications Commission and industry lobbyists are once again trying to let huge media companies get even bigger by resurrecting the same rule changes that millions of Americans rejected in 2003. It's hard to believe that anyone at the FCC could actually be considering the welfare of the American people…
According to the Indianapolis Star, the reporting from Guantanamo will be less diverse: Now, the Pentagon has shut down access entirely -- at least temporarily -- expelling reporters this week and triggering an outcry from human rights groups, attorneys and media organizations even as the prison comes under renewed criticism…
Binary: compounded or consisting of or marked by two things or parts.
You know that feeling of resentment that wells up inside when someone enters your space and dumps chores on you? It breeds a lot of resentment. That’s how neo-conservatives feel about progressives. Neo-cons hiss and spit when they speak of progressives because progressives try to dump lots of extra work on neo-cons.
What kind of work, you ask? The work of actually having to get to know people before judging them. It’s a lot of work. No wonder conservatives express such animosity toward progressives!
For the next minute, step inside the collective mind of the neocon . . .
…We had to retaliate against Iraqis when people from Saudi Arabia attacked us. Sometimes you need to show those people who’s in charge.
I check in with conservative talk radio quite often. In the privacy of my SUV, my radio reminds me that all unmarried mothers are failures. All welfare recipients are trash, of course. All drug addicts should be thrown in prison for a lonngg time. Well, except for Rush. All immigrants should be kept out of the U.S.A. Who the hell do they think they are, trying to get what we have.
Homosexuals? They are clearly immoral. Criminals, actually. . . guilty of something. Do I actually know any gay
